[El Saif]

This is the OEM carburetor on my 2004 350cc Thunderbird kick start pnly.

The card has not been touched.

The fuel line from the tank to the carburetor rotted away

[Adrian II]

Same carb as on this 350 Thudnerbird engine for sale at Hitchcocks'.

https://accessories.hitchcocksmotorcycles.com/53763?cont_page=Engines

Note this one all the primary cases, alternator and some of the CDI parts as well, all for £100 +VAT. Quite the bargain by Mr H's standards. 

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[Mac350]

This guy isn't far from me in Suffolk, musings about his stable of Enfields, mostly a good watch with a cuppa!

https://www.youtube.com/@Volcanicbrown1878

Good recommendation thanks. Funny the first one I clicked on I thought i recognised the lanes and sure enough I know them well. I'm from the east edge of Ipswich originally and we used to go for runs out this way on bikes and cars when I was a boy racer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYQWYkwj0g its a nice part of the country.

[Mac350]

Same carb as on this 350 Thudnerbird engine for sale at Hitchcocks'.

https://accessories.hitchcocksmotorcycles.com/53763?cont_page=Engines

Note this one all the primary cases, alternator and some of the CDI parts as well, all for £100 +VAT. Quite the bargain by Mr H's standards. 

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The other leanburn engines are way less than the other bits for sale as well. If it wasn't for the £60 postage I'd buy it just in case, practice rebuilding it and mount it as wall art until I need it. I'm finding the disinterest in this AVL engine very strange. I watched an official enfield channel history of the bullet and they just skipped over the AVL years. But thats fine by me if it means bargain parts.

[Mac350]

I like this way to learn how to do something rather than following a manual, and I've not got to the oil change yet. Not quite as simple looking as dropping the oil out and replacing in other bikes. Is all this true for the AVL same as the CI engine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hUylyXwm2k

[tooseevee]

I'm finding the disinterest in this AVL engine very strange. I watched an official enfield channel history of the bullet and they just skipped over the AVL years.

    I found that also, in the ones I've watched. They're like an orphan child who doesn't know who its parents were.

[Adrian II]

The oil filter is shorter and fatter on the AVL, but it's pretty much the same procedure.

As for the lack of interest in or antipathy towards the AVL design, at least outside of India, is that they're well... different. Not REAL Bullets?Top end finning is sparse, on all but the early ones you have that weirdo CV carburettor, and that timing cover, it's a bit CHUNKY, innit? People had forgtten or didn't know about the square oil pump housings on the older RE models.



Then we have the RE Thunderbird styling, whose side-panel and strange tool box design went onto the Electra-X, more don't like it-ism. The US importer persuaded the factory to put the 500 AVL engine and gear box in a traditional Bullet tinware equipped rolling chassis but Watsonian-Squire couldn't be bothered with it in the UK. Then you have the damage to the models' reputation caused by sprag clutch and premature big-end failures.

Good, more for us then!

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the VMCC autojumble in Cheddar, will you be crossing the border into Somerset?

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